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PNAMP Coordination Staff
The PNAMP Coordination Staff provide support for the collaborative efforts of the many volunteer participants in PNAMP efforts. We implement priorities identified by the Steering Committee by supporting workgroups, representing PNAMP to other collaborative efforts, and leading some key projects. In general, we strive to make it easier for you to collaborate!
Coordinator
Jen Bayer (USGS)
Although I truly enjoyed my years in fisheries research, I consider serving as lead staff for PNAMP a real privilege. I am amazed by the willingness of monitoring practitioners across the Pacific Northwest to collaborate and am delighted to support these efforts. Collaboration across jurisdictions is hard – there is no doubt about that – but the results are oh so worth the work! Prior to serving as the PNAMP Coordinator, I conducted research at the USGS Columbia River Research Laboratory - with an emphasis on native fishes of the Columbia River basin. When I am not helping PNAMP partners, I might be found supporting collaboration in my community, volunteering at my son's school, or learning about energy efficient houses via the design and construction of a new home for my family.
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford
Assistant Coordinator
Coordination in any realm is vital, especially given situations where vast amounts of information are needed to make informed decisions, but budgets constrain the amount of information that is collected. In my work with PNAMP, I collaborate with a wide variety of participants from around the region to develop resources and tools to promote coordination and collaboration in monitoring programs. I envision many opportunities in the future for development of tools to support monitoring practitioners as technology continues to advance. My interest in coordination and collaboration stems from previous work at a USGS research laboratory in Washington. While there, I participated in research related to juvenile salmonid migration through hydroelectric facilities on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. In addition, some of the research was focused on behavior of juveniles in and around hydroelectric facilities. This research helped me recognize that looking at the system as a whole is essential and very hard to do without coordination and collaboration.
Information Management Liaison
The creation and sharing of information is a central building block of science and resource management. My work with PNAMP as Information Management Liaison allows me to work directly with technicians, scientists, and policy makers that are looking at ways to make a strong bridge of practices and capacities that link raw data to powerful information. The collection and transformation of data has been a theme in my entire science career, which includes 15 years of mapping, modeling, and modeling work with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Southwest. I have a B.S. in Biology (U of Oregon), M.S. in Plant Sciences (U of California Davis), PhD in Geography (U of California Santa Barbara), and certificate in Emergency Management (U of Washington). My personal interests are the visual arts, NaturesNotebook, and working dogs.